About us
Built on Experience
A2L Africa was established by senior professionals with extensive experience delivering projects in remote, complex, and high-risk environments across the African continent. Our leadership has operated where logistics are uncertain, conditions are demanding, and decisions carry real consequences.
These environments shape how we work — with discipline, accountability, respect for people, and a clear understanding that execution ultimately defines success.
Our Purpose
A2L Africa exists to align leadership, execution, and values so that projects become catalysts for long-term growth — for communities, businesses, and markets.
Our Philosophy
We believe that:
Execution defines success
People define outcomes
If a project cannot be done safely, it should not be done at all
Integrity, safety, and sustainability are non-negotiable in every engagement.
Meet our team
Skilled craftsmen dedicated to quality and excellence
Arnold Pouwels
Project Management | Execution | Commercial
Arnold Pouwels brings deep on-the-ground experience delivering projects in remote and frontier environments across Africa. His leadership is shaped by practical execution, where accountability, planning, and respect for the people delivering the work determine outcomes. Arnold focuses on stabilising operations, aligning commercial structures with delivery realities, and leading teams through complexity and change. His approach balances contractual discipline with sound judgment under pressure, ensuring projects move from plan to reality with integrity and consistency.
Gareth
Booth
Project Management | Execution | Commercial
Gareth Booth is a Civil Engineer with over three decades of experience delivering infrastructure, industrial, and earthworks projects across Africa and international markets. With a strong foundation in project and construction management, Gareth has led projects from early studies and permitting through design, construction, operation, and closure. His leadership is grounded in safety, technical control, and stakeholder integrity, ensuring projects are executed efficiently, responsibly, and to the highest professional standards.
Douglas Hardy
Project Management | Architectural | Commercial
Douglas Hardy has over 40 years’ experience in the built environment, with a background in architectural technology and construction project management. His work spans residential and town-scale developments, master planning, and sustainable projects across Africa and international markets. Douglas brings a design-informed and commercially grounded perspective to project leadership, ensuring that planning intent, buildability, and long-term value are aligned throughout the project lifecycle.
Petrie van Niekerk
Business Development | ERP Systems | Supply Chain & Logistics
Petrie van Niekerk provides A2L Africa with a strong commercial and systems-driven capability, focusing on business development, ERP integration, and supply chain oversight. His background spans digital development, manufacturing support, and construction-adjacent industries, with hands-on experience in production workflows, logistics coordination, and process optimisation. Petrie’s role ensures that systems, data, and logistics directly support efficient and reliable project delivery, particularly in remote and operationally challenging environments.
Ephraim Dlamimi
Estimating | QS | Commercial
Ephraim Dlamini is a respected construction professional with five decades of experience in the industry, bringing precision, reliability, and deep commercial insight to A2L. With a strong background in Quantity Surveying, Estimating, and Commercial Management, he supports cost certainty, accurate forecasting, and disciplined commercial control, underpinned by his long-standing industry experience and professional registration with EAAES.
Awalandwe Dlamini
Communications | Stakeholder Engagement | Brand & Reputation
Awalandwe provides A2L Africa with a focused communications and brand capability that supports effective project delivery and stakeholder confidence. With experience in public relations and brand management within construction and project-driven environments, she manages corporate and project communications, reporting, and brand consistency, ensuring messaging aligns with operational realities on the ground while strengthening engagement with clients, partners, communities, and institutions and reinforcing A2L Africa’s commitment to disciplined, transparent delivery.
Simon Chilambe
Procurement | Logistics | ERP
Simon Chilambe is an experienced supply chain professional with over 10 years of experience across procurement, logistics, and ERP-driven operations, having managed complex, high-value supply chains across retail and construction environments. At A2L, he strengthens procurement, logistics, and systems integration, supporting cost control, supplier performance, and operational visibility while translating strategic objectives into practical, reliable supply chain solutions that underpin effective project delivery.
Willem Steyn
Procurement | QS | Logistics
With a Quantity Surveying background and experience across North West Zambia and West Africa, he brings a practical, site-based understanding of procurement and planning in remote operating environments. His expertise spans materials procurement, logistics coordination, and ERP systems, enabling accurate cost control, effective forecasting, and seamless integration between commercial, procurement, and site teams to support reliable project delivery in complex locations.
Ralph Futcher
Project Management | Site | QA
Ralph Futcher is a highly experienced, site-based construction professional with over two decades of experience delivering building projects across Africa, including Ivory Coast, eSwatini, Zambia, and South Africa. Detail-oriented and deeply grounded in site operations, he brings a thorough understanding of building construction from foundation to completion, with strong capability in interpreting drawings on site and translating design intent into accurate, high-quality execution across residential and multi-storey commercial developments.